Leadership
The University of Texas at Austin
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Noel Clemens
Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Principal Investigator; Experimental Validation
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Jayant Sirohi
Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Experimental Validation
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Karen Willcox
Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Scientific Machine Learning
Huston-Tillotson University
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Amanda Masino
Professor
Education and Workforce Development
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Engin Topkara
Professor
Education and Workforce Development
University of Michigan
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Carlos Cesnik
Professor
Aerothermoelastic structural simulation
University of Texas at San Antonio
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Chris Combs
Assistant Professor
Hypersonic aeroelastic model testing
Sandia National Laboratories
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Dr. Patrick Blonigan
High-fidelity CFD simulations and reduced-order modeling
Lockheed Martin Corporation
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Barry Bauer
Hypersonic systems
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Dr. John Rhoads
Hypersonic systems
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Michael Niestroy
Hypersonic systems
Researchers
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Brianna Blocher
Graduate Research Assistant
UT Austin
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Brandon Cruz
Undergraduate Research Assistant
UT Austin
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Eli LaLonde
Graduate Research Assistant
UT San Antonio
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Austin Rendon
Undergraduate Research Assistant
UT San Antonio
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Valeria Delgado
Graduate Research Assistant
UT San Antonio
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Marc Eitner
Post Doc
UT Austin
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Ana Cristine Meinicke
Graduate Student Research Assistant
University of Michigan
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Aditya Panigrahi
Graduate Research Assistant
UT Austin
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Ben Diaz-Villa
CSE Graduate Fellow
UT Austin
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Mike Jones
Graduate Student Research Assistant
University of Michigan
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Khiem Nguyen
Undergraduate Research Assistant
UT San Antonio
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Julie Pham
Graduate Research Assistant
UT Austin
Staff
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Maria Chaudhry
Administrative Associate
UT Austin